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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:40AM (#50349919)
Same here in Denmark. There are currently 28,054 approved girl names, 22,607 approved boy names, and 1,581 approved unisex names.

Comrade Adam is keeping an eye on the lists and is posting highlights whenever new names are approved: https://kammeratadam.dk/keyword/godkendtefornavne

Re:Show HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:53AM (#50314055)
It looks cool and calming. However, it is a bit confusing that it is mixing saltwater and freshwater fish in the same aquarium.
You can run `boo ui` and have all your sessions in one terminal window with tabs, sort of.
Re:Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:13PM (#48386741)
I used to run 2:230/119, and I used .5 as my point address.
Some terminal emulators – e.g., kitty – can show images inline. I use `toot` and `tooi` to read the Fediverse in kitty, and the images are there alright.
Tlon's bot also seems to have persistent memory:

* https://tlon.io/

The two may have vastly different implementations, though.

Re:I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:38AM (#47971347)
VITE typed on a T9 keyboard is 8483.
And leaf's math display is better than that of mdterm, IMHO.
For one thing, glow doesn't do math equations.
Re:Usenet Archives on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:37AM (#47659137)
Re:Usenet Archives on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:51AM (#47658410)
I'm sorry, it's only for people I know personally. Also, it only holds minor Usenet hierarchies like the vestigial dk.*.

It's not too difficult to set up INN2, and it's easy to get an external feed. It uses minimal resources, and there is hardly any maintanance once it has been installed and configured.

Re:Usenet Archives on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:15AM (#47657829)
/me is still running an NNTP server…
I like the design end the concept. I would like to be able to choose 24h times, though – we don't use am/pm around here.
Re:1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:33AM (#47033815)
You can find many links if you search for “Maronite Chronicle of 713”. Perhaps you will like some of them.
Re:1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:28AM (#47032398)
And here's a machine translation of the text: https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/02/12/machine-trans...
Re:1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:23AM (#47032360)
See also “Maronite Chronicle of 713”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronite_Chronicle_of_713
Re:Show HN: Gojju, a Fun Programming Language on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:42PM (#46468547)
I'm not a programmer, but I like this. It's very easy to use. I can even use gojju on the shebang when writing scripts. I'm a fan. I could package this for ArchLinux User Repository (AUR).

In the long run it would probably nice with a switch or an environment variable to make the banner less intrusive.

The license file seems to be missing.

Re:Assorted Less(1) Tips on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:45PM (#46467955)
Another nice one is moor (née moar): https://github.com/walles/moor
Re:Calendar on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:55AM (#46410168)
Here's a [Danish spoken] page to make a PDF calendar for any year in Danish, English, Norwegian, or Swedish: https://kalendersiden.dk/
Re:Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay on Sunday November 23, 2025 @07:39AM (#46023107)
Related: On https://olduse.net/ you can replay Usenet News with a 40-year delay.
A screenshot or a sample site would be nice. Cheers.
Thanks for the notification! :)
Great, thanks! :)
Right, I should have been more explicit: Pre-existing passwords can have any length, but the "keepr add -g" command will always generate a password of length 20, and there is no obvious way to change that, save for editing the config.py file -- something that may not always be possible (or desirable).
This looks neat.

Is there a way to change the password length? It seems PASSWORD_LENGTH is set to 20 in config.py, but if keepr is installed by the sysadmin, users won't be able to change this.

And about security: Even if the database is encrypted, it would be nice if keepr set the umask to at least 0027 (possibly even 0077) at startup so that everything is only readable by the user.

Cheers.

Bonus for not having 200 questions. It's nice to be able to have the results quickly. :)

I found myself disagreeing, even strongly, on the majority of questions. And what's with all the partying and hanging out with people? It would be nice if the same conclusions could be reached with, say, roughly 50:50 agreement:disagreement (each question could potentially be asked from the opposite viewpoint, and the site could randomly choose one of the two forms).

As for the results: Not surprisingly, the site rated me at 100% introversion (which is similar to what I have scored as in other such tests), but it was only after looking at the scores for the other parameters that it became apparent what an all-blue bar that went from 100% to 0% meant. I.e., it was unclear that blue meant introversion and green meant extraversion.

Overall a nice experience, though.

Re:The Apollo A6000 on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:45PM (#45645980)
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